1980
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 56 m

1980
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 56 m

Summary The Wild West has been tamed, leaving no place for a group of romantic roustabouts except their small traveling show. Meanwhile a desperate heiress (Sondra Locke), who has been left stranded by her con-artist husband, will do anything for a ride to the next town—even if that means allowing a blindfolded Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) to t...

Directed By: Clint Eastwood

Written By: Dennis Hackin

1980
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 56 m

1980
PG
Warner Bros.
1 h 56 m

Bronco Billy

Name: Bronco Billy
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1980-06-11
Duration: 1 min 56 s
Rating: 66
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings

6.6

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Directed By: Clint Eastwood

Written By: Dennis Hackin

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

70% Positive
7 Reviews

20% Mixed
2 Reviews

10% Negative
1 Review

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

70% Positive
7 Reviews

20% Mixed
2 Reviews

10% Negative
1 Review

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Chicago Tribune

Clint Eastwood's most entertaining film in years, a whimsical fable about a Wild West showman with a dream of turning his rag-tag employees into one big happy family. Great country music mixed with Eastwood's natural charm. [11 July 1980, p.8]

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Time Out London

Basically, it's the charming tale of a New Jersey shoe-salesman who fantasises about being a cowboy, and takes a group of assorted weirdos on the road with a travelling show. Not a lot to it in terms of plot, but Eastwood manages to both undermine and celebrate his character's fantasy life, while offering a few gentle swipes at contemporary America (the Stars and Stripes tent sewn together by mental hospital inmates). Fragile, fresh, and miles away from his hard-nosed cop thrillers, it's the sort of film only he would, and could, make.

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Bronco Billy is an odd salute to those clean hearted good guy cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and Clint manages to revel in the glory of that myth despite the fact that he is probably more responsible for making that kind of Western unworkable in modern cinema than anyone else I can think of.

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Variety

Bronco Billy is a caricature of many of the strong heroes whom Eastwood has played in other pix and he's obviously having a wonderful time with the satire.

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The New York Times

The best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while.

By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW

Washington Post

The movie is so shabbily written (by Dennis Hackin) and unevenly directed (by Eastwood himself) that the traditional obstacles to romantic comedy consummation are overwhelmed by superfluous complications and imprecise calculations.

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Casting Eastwood in a friendly, bumbling, light romantic lead is like asking Ethel Merman to sing a lullaby: in the end, nothing is forthcoming but overkill. Clint Eastwood was already famous for that. [16 June 1980]

By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings

6.6

50% Positive
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38% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings

6.6

50% Positive
4 Ratings

38% Mixed
3 Ratings

13% Negative
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Production Company Warner Bros., Second Street Films

Release Date Jun 11, 1980

Duration 1 h 56 m

Rating PG

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Tagline The most outrageous of 'em all.

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Awards

Razzie Awards

• 1 Nomination

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

• 1 Nomination

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Clint Eastwood

Bronco Billy

Sondra Locke

Antoinette Lily

Geoffrey Lewis

John Arlington

Scatman Crothers

Doc Lynch

Bill McKinney

Lefty LeBow

Sam Bottoms

Leonard James

Dan Vadis

Chief Big Eagle

Sierra Pecheur

Lorraine Running Water

Walter Barnes

Sheriff Dix

Woodrow Parfrey

Dr. Canterbury

Beverlee McKinsey

Irene Lily

Doug McGrath

Lt. Wiecker

Hank Worden

Station Mechanic

William Prince

Edgar Lipton

Pam Abbas

Mother Superior

Eyde Byrde

Maid Eloise

Douglas Copsey

Reporter at Bank

John Wesley Elliott Jr.

Sanatorium Attendant

Chuck Hicks

Cowboy at Bar

Bob Hoy

Cowboy at Bar

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